Ambulance staff are to strike.
Yorkshire Ambulance staff will walk out over claims some have been working 10 hour shifts without a meal break.
They claim changes in shift patterns could mean paramedics going more than 10 hours without a meal break and staff being forced to work 12 hour shifts.
The staff, members of Unite, the country’s largest union, voted overwhelmingly for a 24 hour strike which will commence at 00:01 hours on Saturday February 1.
Unite’s members at the Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust will strike again for four hours between 3pm and 7pm on Monday February 3, over the imminent introduction of new elongated shift patterns.
Members voted by a margin of 76% for strike action.
